@sendpaws Politics have rotted almost everyone's mind. They've made it their personality. Everywhere you go on the Internet except some random niche blogs that basically don't exist anymore, there are people talking about politics with flags in usernames while taking sides on the $current_topic. It didn't use to be that way a decade ago.
@phnt it's what nobody realizes about current year 2014 ain't coming back because of the politics in play and it'd be risky to try to re enter the communities I used to occupy because people with axes to grind against me spread rumors and bombastic stories about me back in the day and I'm sure I'm not alone
@phnt reddit is deader The local city reddit is taking the bait of an obvious fed protest in my city to likely clamp down on free speech (there's no future in my city)
@tadano I don't really know of any sane places. Many of the people that left, left in "chunks" with most of the community around them and still remain in contact in private over XMPP/IRC/whatever. It's not like they disappeared completely. You just don't see them.
@phnt It is rather sad to see the sclerosis set in here. So many people are gone now; not sure where else to find non-cancerous places to post what with imageboards being dead.
@phnt@tadano Can confirm that many communities are just small group chats now. As for fedi its always the same cycle, people comen people leave etc. The new flood to be filter out seems to be on the horizon.
@phnt@tadano it's easier to remain in private now than it is to stick your head out and get yelled at by some dude who looks like the protagonist of yiik
@phnt counterpoint: the non masto of the fedi is the dead one Just go to mastodon.social or even misskey.io and there's viral posts they're just trash or food/porn
@sendpaws I know it's not coming back. At least not in the near future where tensions in communities will still be high. It's the same as with 90's Internet, that's not coming back ever. In 10 years? Nobody can probably tell for sure.
I thankfully wasn't part of any community that went apeshit over politics.